CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: April 5, 1961
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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CONTENTS
2. Congo: Relations still tense between Tshombe's forces
and UN in Elisabethville. (Page it)
4. USSR=India: Soviet. presidium member Suslov to. attend
Indian Communist party congress. (Page tit)
5. Ceylon = Communist China: Annual. rice=rubber barter
agreement renewed. (Page tit)
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MALAYA
750
KALONJI
1,500
ETHIOPI
800
Approximate area nominally controlled by:
Luanda LJ Kasavubu-Mobutu
Gizenga
Kalonji
INDIA
300
SUDAN
400
TUNISIA
3,200
Selected road not included)
-*-~ Selected railroad
Selected airfield
MOBUTU
3,400
GHANA
1600
INDIA
800
IRELAND
655
ETHIOPIA
1.500
GIZENGA
7.000
SWEDEN
650
TSHOMBE
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hville;
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Congo: An agreement to return to the status quo at
ElisaBethville airport, with Katangan troops and a Swedish
UN contingent exercising joint control, apparently has
papered over the immediate cause of the 3 April confronta-
tion between UN and Katangan forces. The incident seems
to have been set of by the Katangans, who attempted to
block the airport runway and were apprehended and disarmed
the UN will attempt to airlift Indian troops into southern Ka-
tanga from Lamina. This distrust has been communicated
to the civilian population and the armed forces, and civilian
demonstrations against the UN occurred on 4 April.
(In a discussion in New York with American and British
officials, Hammarskjold indicated that he is hopeful rela-
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% prove. He remains adamant, however, that UN military
units must be readmitted to the port of Matadi in the near
futures He disclosed that in an effort to meet Congolese ob-
jections, his representative in Leopoldville was being in-
structed to suggest that the force in the port might be lim-
iterl to inn Nigerian police for the time heing_ He said he
0 was asking for an early answer and stated that if no favor-
able reply were received he would bring the question be-
fore the Security Council.
Soviet presidium tuber Brezhnev told the Swiss
ambassador recently that the USSR has little interest or
hopes in the Congo but is going to use the issue as a means
of obtaining its objectives concerning the UN Secretariat,
including the removal of Secretary General Hammarskjoldo
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M. A. Suslov, member of the Soviet party
USSR-India: ~M_
presifflum and secretariat in charge of liaison with foreign
Communist parties, is reportedly scheduled to attend the
Indian Communist party's sixth congress which opens on 7
April. The decision to send Suslov, who has played a cen-
tral role in the Sino-Soviet dispute and particularly in the
drafting of the resolution at the November 1960 conference
of Communist parties, is probably related to the deepening
split between those elements of the Indian party oriented to-
ward Moscow and the group which generally follows the Pei-
ping line. Suslov may also be bringing new instructions to
the Indian party, reflecting the Soviet Union's concern that
India's foreign policy has been shifting toward the West in
the past few months. 7
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Ceylon- Communist China: Colombo and Peiping on 4
April signed the annual protocol to their second five-year
rice-rubber barter agreement (1958-62). The 1961 proto-
col calls for a return to the higher level of trade which ob-
tained from 1953 through 1959. The resumption of previous
trade levels stems more from Ceylonese economic necessity
than from the neutralist Ceylonese Government's policy of
increasing the bloc's small share of the island's trade. Last
year Colombo eventually had to buy considerably more rice
from China than the reduced amount specified in the annual
contract. The Chinese rice commitment to Ceylon--set at
200,000 tons for 1961--is to be met by re orts of the
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Situation in the Congo
The tension in Elisabethville is unlikely to interfere wi
Tshombd's reported plans to move on Kabalo in the northern
part of Katan a although the operation may be delayed some-
white and African units ave been airlifted to n-
go o, nor of Kabalo, and a move southward is imminent.
[Iammarskjold stated on 3 April that in his opinion, the pres-
ence of Indian troops at Kamina had brought Tshombd's offen-
sive to a halt and. a resumption of the operation was unlikely.
However, the commanders in northern Katanga are likely to
base their estimate of UN military effectiveness on the re-
fusal of the Nigerian troops at Manono to intervene in the bat-
tle there. The operation thus may be undertaken despite the
enlarged UN force in KatangaS.
Hammarskjold said he believed that the Congolese in Leo-
poldville were becoming apprehensive of Tshombd's ambitions
and are happy to see the UN exerting pressure on. Katanga. The
24-hour time limit set by Hammarskjold for a reply from Leo-
poldville probably is a bargaining position and subject to modi-
fication. Hammarskjold does feel, however, that a prompt
settlement--Qf the Matadi dispute is a prerequisite for an im-
provement in relations between the UN and Leopoldville
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USSR, Reportedly Will Send a 'Top Leader to Indian_*~
Party Congress
uslov, a leading Soviet ideologist, led delegations to the
French Communist party congresses in 1956 and 1959 and to
the Italian Communist party congresses. in 1956 and 1960.
He also visited Great Britain as a guest of the British Par-
liament in 1947, toured the Brussels World Fair in 1958,
and revisited England "informally" at the invitation of the
British Labor party to promote Anglo-Soviet relations. His
prospective trip to India, the first he has made to an Asian
country, points up the seriousness with which the Soviet
leaders view the inroads Chinese concepts have made in a
party in which USSR has long had the predominant influence
there will be no C inese delegates a
the party congress. The Chinese had apparently intended to
have the delegation to the just concluded World Peace Coun-
cil meeting in New Delhi remain in India to represent them
at the congress. The Indian Government- -apparently de-
liberately discriminating against Peiping- -reportedly turned
down the delegation's requests for visa extensions while ap-
proving visas for other foreign delegates. Nehru's govern-
ment, while highly critical of any foreign influence in Indian
political affairs, may hope that the Soviet Communist party,
in contrast to the Chinese party, will exercise a moderating
influence on the Indian party [
The last Indian Communist party congress was held in
April 1958 at Amritsar, where the party formally adopted a
"peaceful, parliamentary approach to power." Chronic fac-
tionalism among the Indian Communist leaders soon led to a
renewed struggle over party policy, and the dissension was
accentuated by the recent Sino-Soviet ideological dispute. A
series of executive meetings in February failed to break the
deadlock between the moderate and extremist groups. Lead-
ers of the various factions are preparing for a showdown fight
at the national congress in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, but
the final outcome is more likely to take the form of a com-
promise designed to 'hold the party together for the elections
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rly next year. Suslov's presence will increase the pressure
on rival leaders to compromise their differences
.recent months, Indian policies on the Congo, on the
reorganization of the UN Secretariat, and on Laos have re-
suited in a deterioration of Indo-Soviet relations:.
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Colombo and Peiping Sign 1961 Rice-Rubber Contract
The first five-year barter agreement was negotiated in
late 1952. The conservative, pro-Western United National
party government then in office was motivated solely by eco-
nomic factors: at that time rice was difficult to obtain and
world rubber prices were low.
Colombo has continued the exchange during the past eight
years because the arrangement has provided a reliable source
of nearly half the: island's annual rice import requirements and
a steady market for one of its three exports. Since 1953 all
the annual contracts except last year's have involved a minimum
exchange of about 200,000 tons of rice for 30,000 tons of Cey-
lon's rubber.
Negotiation of the yearly contract takes place alternately
in Colombo and Peiping and normally is a routine process, al-
though there occasionally have been protracted disputes over
prices. The lengthy discussions on the 1960 contract marked
the only occasion when the talks have taken a somewhat polit-
ical turn; a few officials in the conservative caretaker regime
in power in Ceylon at that time hoped to reduce the island's
dependence on the pact, as well as to free for sale at better
prices some of the rubber committed to China at fixed prices.
Burma is the other chief source of the island's rice im-
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THE PRESIDENT
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Executive Offices of the White House
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The Director of the Budget
The Director, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
The Director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Chairman, Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities
The Department of State
The Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State
The Director, International Cooperation Administration
The Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
The Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council
The Director of Intelligence and Research
The Treasury Department
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Department of Defense
The Secretary of Defense
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The Secretary of the Army
The Secretary of the Navy
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Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
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The Department of Justice
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